Pee pee goes in the potty!

A week before Elna turned 2, we decided to potty train her.  My mom was in town the week before Harriet’s blessing and I knew she would be a big help.  I used a program my friend suggested and it worked great!  (Let me know if you want more details on it—it was awesome!)  It was a 3-day intense system. The first day Elna had a bunch of accidents, but stayed dry a few times.  That night she also wet her bed twice.  The next day was only marginally better, with another wet night.  By the third day we weren’t too hopeful, but things started clicking for Elna that day, she was dry almost the entire day, and by the end of that day she was pretty much potty trained.  She was dry that night, and has been dry almost every night since then and her days are always dry!  She is awesome!  And we are happy to not be paying for her diapers anymore!

These videos are short—worth watching in my opinion…but I’m certainly very biased!  She is the cutest little potty trained girl I’ve ever seen! 

 

Elna in her first pair of panties!

When Elna woke up Monday morning we made a HUGE deal about how she was a big girl now and that she doesn’t wear diapers anymore because only babies wear diapers.  She went through the house and collected all of her diapers and “threw” them away—we even went outside to the outside trashcan so they felt even more gone.  (Later we retrieved those diapers and put them up in the attic for Harriet to use later—diapers are too expensive to just throw away!)  She had so much fun throwing her diapers away!  Then we gave her her panties and the training began! 

Such a cute big girl!

Her first dry night!  A big deal!

Her first poop in the toilet!  We took a picture to send to Daddy at work—you know, to make a big deal of it and all!

These pictures make me laugh.  She’s helping me gather all of Harriet’s dirty diapers and take them out to the trash.  She’s obviously taking her job very seriously.

I love how she’s reading on her tummy.  She loves Where’s Waldo and after about the first time reading it, found Waldo within seconds of looking at the page.  She’s so smart!

This was on her birthday—2 years old and potty trained!  Our girl is growing up!  Milestones are so exciting!  And a little sad for me too, when I think of her losing her baby-ness—love my girl!!